PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 139, 5 November 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr R_ B. ij. i:r; c flag appointed wuingratiou officer at New Plymouth.

the deavli 01 ilf Oauic* liurrell, wejfc known m „u..rmil)in K circle*, wcurred in UII a u-w ua39 ago. Ho

The dea'u ,« ril) , 0l - w oi Ur H & I, Adorns, s ., Jlu .i of> ol Vma Jormeri y \? 1 Wueatioi Board He ,md u, ior some con-side-rablo time past.

Jjeu-,*njnu u. i. walker whosa parents reside ai Auckland, was repor-' .onAcr 9. Hi.s p-vnta yesterday rcceiv ed a telegram mm, Ai n[ *> a t himself sate arid v.i-ii. I^"i

In the anuuu] • um !s " examinations «t Victoria College, Aiabe JC. 11. Tarry of Inglewoou, k.nt second .war 1 , ten* H»e obtained scn.or Siy.ond-dasi pass iw hotany, and th-ro-cusg pa*, j„ cduc £ twn. ,

News has n, ■:: :,v C .v«d in Welling, ton that Capt;:m : .Mtuurt. wlie can* t« Kew Zealand as aide-de-camp to Lord Islington and hulmequen-dy became mflfc. tary secretary i 0 Ceiiymi Oodley, bag been taken pivun-r by lb.- iionnana, Captain Eatco»rt ,vas serving with thfe Scots dreys iu Ki-unev. ■

Constable U. .), O'Neill, who reccntl* passed his c-.\ai;i.nai.ion ior the rank ofl .Sergean.i, ha., i ,n\j notice of hig transfer to il.,- -ij.ift,. of the RahotU police district, :;, : d w .ll l.ake up hii duties there ou t-iie ,ns;ant. During his five and a Half years in New Prw moui,h he prowi himself to be a popw lar and efl'iei.i:' oll'icer. and his many friends will ivj,.i him every success M his new-district, " i

A picture*! «,■ ligure in Melfhodtafl circles m tile iiuu \a.iey has just passed away, Mr ,loiin t'lctiiii) i, oiio of the) oldest seMlcrs m the district, haying diod a( the advanced age of !>O. The dlareused, who wa-, for many .years in tba| ■service of the Hint County Council, waal a deeply religious man, and in the earh] days he was one of the best known local preachers in the Weeleyan Methodtaß connecton.

The great European war is taking heavy toll of [J.-ufke's Bay in proportion to population. Recently the faet wa« olironieled of the wounding of Captain Harold William*, soti of Mrs Nat Wih liame, of Napier, in the fighting at iVlons. Now comes the news of the killing in action or Lieutenant Walter Riw sej], son of Lndv Russell, and th* lata sir' Williams Russell, and 'be wounding of Lieutenant Amnion MXcan, sono* "* r » R, I). D. M'Lean, '/he well-known owner of Marnckakaho station. LadyRussell lost a son in the Boor war, and had. taken up her resM«ne- :« inland lately to be near her son. the late Lieutenant Walter Russell.